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Agenda: Check-in "Playground Elegy" by Clint Smith Prompts for NaPoWriMo Day #23 HW: RJ 14.4 on a poem.  Read a poem and write a poem. Get these signed and turn them in tomorrow.  Zoom is art 1:00 today. See you there if it's something you need or find helpful right now.   Check-in Question for today: What are you grieving for from life before? Our poem today is by Clint Smith. Read through the poem 3-4 times (preferably out loud).  What feeling/tone do you get from the poem?  What is it about?  What poetic elements do you notice happening in this poem?  Annotate and make sense of this poem. Prompt: Write a poem about an early  childhood  memory.   From  Winter Tangerine:  "Where do your joys live?" And from  Writer's Digest : " For today’s prompt, write a quirk poem. The quirk could be a personal or human quality. Or it could be a quirk of fate. Remember: These prompts are just springboards; you have

Agenda: Check-in Poetry Collections and Poetry Slam Videos "Toy Boat" by Ocean Vuong Prompts for NaPoWriMo Day #22 HW: RJ 14.3 on a poem.  Read a poem and write a poem.  Happy Wednesday. Somehow, the weeks are flying by. We're already almost done with our four week of distance learning. Crazy.  Zooms are at 9 and 10 today. See you there.  Check-in Question for today: What do you wish teachers knew or would do differently in the transition to online learning?  Before we look at our prompts, let's talk a little about our poetry collections and the poetry slam.  For your collections: put together a collection of your best 10-15 poems due May 6th. (50 points) Include an introduction and table of contents.  Number your pages.  Revise your poems to make them as strong as possible.  For our poetry slam:  Submit a video of you performing a poem by May 8th. (30 points) You can do someone else's poem with a response or your